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Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia.com
Ricky De La Cruz, 17, smiles while he invites everyone to stay for dinner after he returned home with a DeKalb Police and DeKalb Fire Department escort into town to hundreds of people lining Taylor Street in DeKalb on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Ricky underwent heart transplant surgery on April 19 and had to stay in Chicago at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital and later Ronald McDonald House to go through tests before he was allowed home.